Monday, December 27, 2010
The Long awaited Christmas call
WE WERE ABLE TO USE SKYPE ON CHRISTMAS DAY! IT WAS SO GOOD TO SEE JAKE AND HEAR HIS BROKEN ENGLISH! HE SAID HE DREAMS IN SPANISH NOW. I WAS A LITTLE WORRIED HE WOULD LOOSE HIS FABULOUS SENSE OF HUMOR BUT NO!! HE KEPT US ALL LAUGHING! HE IS JUST THE SAME JAKE ONLY WITH AN ACCENT. LESS THAN 6 MONTHS AND HE WILL BE HOME!! SHORT LETTER BECAUSE OF THE CALL.
SHEREEN
familia
Welp as for changes. I'm staying here in suba for another transfer with elder huaita. In which I'm pumped. They also sent some pretty great elders here to help out some elders that need help. So I'm pretty excited to get to work this change with the zone.
I felt impressed this afternoon that great things are going to happen here in zona suba and in my area. My companion is the great!
I loved talking with you guys a lot. So great to see your faces. You'll have to keep forgiving me for my English.
This call just reminded me again how little time i have left and how precious it is.
Thanks for being the best family ever. I love each and everyone of you and for the vital role you have in my life.
con un abrazo gigante!!
e. adams
attch. your package wrapped up and divided!
SHEREEN
familia
Welp as for changes. I'm staying here in suba for another transfer with elder huaita. In which I'm pumped. They also sent some pretty great elders here to help out some elders that need help. So I'm pretty excited to get to work this change with the zone.
I felt impressed this afternoon that great things are going to happen here in zona suba and in my area. My companion is the great!
I loved talking with you guys a lot. So great to see your faces. You'll have to keep forgiving me for my English.
This call just reminded me again how little time i have left and how precious it is.
Thanks for being the best family ever. I love each and everyone of you and for the vital role you have in my life.
con un abrazo gigante!!
e. adams
attch. your package wrapped up and divided!
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Laguna de Gautavita
familia mia,
antes que todo. I got your package, i just opened it to take out the what could be urgent, and put everything else right back in there to have a great christmas morning for me and my companions! THANKS!
I write today because we changed our prep. day so we could go to the laguna de gautavita (I bet you can wikipedia it). It was great. We had contracted a guy to drive our whole zone in a bus because it's pretty remote. The story is that it was a sacred ritual site of the native tribe that lived here before the Inquisition. The idea is that this place is special because it was a combination of the two creating forces of life --- masculine and feminine. Similar to spanish, every thing had a gender, the water being feminine, the mountians being masculine, so this little lake that resides in the top of the mountains was a fusion of the two forces. So they offered their gold to it. When the spanards found it they went nuts and cut a side out of the wall to drain the water and take out the gold. It's estimated that they took out over 8 tons of gold. resulting also in lowering the lagoon to about a half the size (the water got to about where we were standing before). So needless to say --- i was eating it all up, and the guide wanted to answer all my questions! And i hope you all remember how much I like to ask questions. The natives were concidently doing a rutual there to celebrate the end of their year, followed by a bunch of rich naturalist that wanted to help them out. The fun thing was as we watched these suposibly poor little indigeousness guys get secretly into their nice SUV. good stuff.
This week has been great. Last week i had the opportunity to go on interchanges with the whole zone, do to the fact that we are in a trio right now. I had some great experiences...
Yolanda and her 9 yera old daughter Natalia, have had nothing to do with the church for over ten years. Yolanda quickly inactived after being baptized when she was 16, but she always remembered the church when she saw the missionaries pass by, but every time they were never within reach. Two weeks ago, she saw them again, and gained the power necessary to greet them. This moment resulted in an invitation to go to christmas devotional where the spirit filled her, teaching her what she once had known, and even more. Her daughter, will be baptized the 1st of January.
... I ran out of time but i will tell you more when we talk this saturday!
JESS I'm glad your feelin better. you get that ear ready to hear my broken english saturday ok! btw the CD is great!!!!
i'm thinking 4 oclock utah time... ill call friday afternoon to verifiy...
I love you all, so much and can't wait to talk to you,
feliz navidad,
e. adams
p.s. it seemed like google talk was better, i guess we'll see!
antes que todo. I got your package, i just opened it to take out the what could be urgent, and put everything else right back in there to have a great christmas morning for me and my companions! THANKS!
I write today because we changed our prep. day so we could go to the laguna de gautavita (I bet you can wikipedia it). It was great. We had contracted a guy to drive our whole zone in a bus because it's pretty remote. The story is that it was a sacred ritual site of the native tribe that lived here before the Inquisition. The idea is that this place is special because it was a combination of the two creating forces of life --- masculine and feminine. Similar to spanish, every thing had a gender, the water being feminine, the mountians being masculine, so this little lake that resides in the top of the mountains was a fusion of the two forces. So they offered their gold to it. When the spanards found it they went nuts and cut a side out of the wall to drain the water and take out the gold. It's estimated that they took out over 8 tons of gold. resulting also in lowering the lagoon to about a half the size (the water got to about where we were standing before). So needless to say --- i was eating it all up, and the guide wanted to answer all my questions! And i hope you all remember how much I like to ask questions. The natives were concidently doing a rutual there to celebrate the end of their year, followed by a bunch of rich naturalist that wanted to help them out. The fun thing was as we watched these suposibly poor little indigeousness guys get secretly into their nice SUV. good stuff.
This week has been great. Last week i had the opportunity to go on interchanges with the whole zone, do to the fact that we are in a trio right now. I had some great experiences...
Yolanda and her 9 yera old daughter Natalia, have had nothing to do with the church for over ten years. Yolanda quickly inactived after being baptized when she was 16, but she always remembered the church when she saw the missionaries pass by, but every time they were never within reach. Two weeks ago, she saw them again, and gained the power necessary to greet them. This moment resulted in an invitation to go to christmas devotional where the spirit filled her, teaching her what she once had known, and even more. Her daughter, will be baptized the 1st of January.
... I ran out of time but i will tell you more when we talk this saturday!
JESS I'm glad your feelin better. you get that ear ready to hear my broken english saturday ok! btw the CD is great!!!!
i'm thinking 4 oclock utah time... ill call friday afternoon to verifiy...
I love you all, so much and can't wait to talk to you,
feliz navidad,
e. adams
p.s. it seemed like google talk was better, i guess we'll see!
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
feliz cumpleaños
mi familia amada,
I would love to write to everyone but time is too short, so i send you all a big THANK YOU! I believe I had a new record for happy birthday messages. Soo great to hear from anyone. We changed our p-day to today because it was our turn to go to the temple and its closed monday. Nevertheless, it meant a lot to hear from all the people that I love.
Ha, the whole 21 year old drinking thing isn't a big deal down here, you can go buy a beer when your like 10 here.
My birthday was great and unforgetable for a couple of reasons
1. I forgot it was my birthday! I believe it was the only opportunity like that I'll ever have... it was like 8 oclock when one of the elders I live with wished me happy birthday.
2. no one else knew it was my birthday! Ha I know these things might sound sad, but theyre not! My whole zone knew and we wished me happy birthday in the zone meeting, sang happy birthday and gave me a cake. So that was enough for me. Then I went on interchanges with an elder that is finishing his mission tomorrow. So they didn't know who i was so they defiantly didn't know it was my birthday.
But it really was one of the greatest birthday's that i have ever had. We met and talked with amazing people, we were able to teach people by the spirit, and have these people teach us. I fill a lot better when i'm focused on others, than on myself, and what happens usually on a birthday is it becomes ''all about me'', but when there is nobody to focus on you, it call be ''all about them''. It is so much better to love than to be loved. Nevertheless, i know i am very loved by you all, and that means everything to me.
I'm loving this christmas season! we were able to sing in the choir for the stake christmas fireside. We have plans to go around to all the areas to sing christmas carols. its going to be great!
1) Can you skype again?
OF COURSE!
2) Can you call an 800 number in the states without too much trouble?
OF COURSE!
3) Can you call on the phone and be on skpye at the same time?
This a little more tough, but i'll work on it.
4) Any idea what time you might call?
No idea. when ever it would be most conveinent . it's a saturday and we don't have a baptismal service (yet).
I can't believe robert will be home for christmas and will be studying in january. i wish him the best.
You mentioned that you guys might want to come to pick me up? i'm down if your down. but we'll talk about that later i still got six months left to work my hardest!
thanks for the birthday wishes and gifts! I love you all so much!
love,
e. adams!
attch. it's a colombian tradition to have them try to take out a candle with their mouth and then you smashe their head in the cake. after being here for a year and half i've figured that one out but i just complied.
I would love to write to everyone but time is too short, so i send you all a big THANK YOU! I believe I had a new record for happy birthday messages. Soo great to hear from anyone. We changed our p-day to today because it was our turn to go to the temple and its closed monday. Nevertheless, it meant a lot to hear from all the people that I love.
Ha, the whole 21 year old drinking thing isn't a big deal down here, you can go buy a beer when your like 10 here.
My birthday was great and unforgetable for a couple of reasons
1. I forgot it was my birthday! I believe it was the only opportunity like that I'll ever have... it was like 8 oclock when one of the elders I live with wished me happy birthday.
2. no one else knew it was my birthday! Ha I know these things might sound sad, but theyre not! My whole zone knew and we wished me happy birthday in the zone meeting, sang happy birthday and gave me a cake. So that was enough for me. Then I went on interchanges with an elder that is finishing his mission tomorrow. So they didn't know who i was so they defiantly didn't know it was my birthday.
But it really was one of the greatest birthday's that i have ever had. We met and talked with amazing people, we were able to teach people by the spirit, and have these people teach us. I fill a lot better when i'm focused on others, than on myself, and what happens usually on a birthday is it becomes ''all about me'', but when there is nobody to focus on you, it call be ''all about them''. It is so much better to love than to be loved. Nevertheless, i know i am very loved by you all, and that means everything to me.
I'm loving this christmas season! we were able to sing in the choir for the stake christmas fireside. We have plans to go around to all the areas to sing christmas carols. its going to be great!
1) Can you skype again?
OF COURSE!
2) Can you call an 800 number in the states without too much trouble?
OF COURSE!
3) Can you call on the phone and be on skpye at the same time?
This a little more tough, but i'll work on it.
4) Any idea what time you might call?
No idea. when ever it would be most conveinent . it's a saturday and we don't have a baptismal service (yet).
I can't believe robert will be home for christmas and will be studying in january. i wish him the best.
You mentioned that you guys might want to come to pick me up? i'm down if your down. but we'll talk about that later i still got six months left to work my hardest!
thanks for the birthday wishes and gifts! I love you all so much!
love,
e. adams!
attch. it's a colombian tradition to have them try to take out a candle with their mouth and then you smashe their head in the cake. after being here for a year and half i've figured that one out but i just complied.
Thursday, December 9, 2010
No letter this week
I have been bugging Jake for a couple of weeks to send his testimony so that it can be read in the foothills ward Christmas program. He sent the testimony but no time to write the letter. I loved reading his testimony it was great!! I will post it after the Christmas program for those who follow his blog from the foothills ward.
Thanks!
Shereen
Thanks!
Shereen
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